The world is always ending, for someone.
— Neil Gaiman, Signal To Noise
From the Greek word "apokalyptein", meaning uncovering or revealing, an apocalypse is a catastrophic event that changes the world as we know it, so that it "reveals" a new world (so to speak). This index lists tropes relating to the apocalyptic.
Tropes:
- After the End
- And Man Grew Proud
- Animal Is the New Man
- Apocalypse Anarchy
- The Apocalypse Brings Out the Best in People
- Apocalypse Cult
- Apocalypse Day Planner
- Apocalypse How
- Apocalypse Not
- Apocalypse Wow
- Apocalyptic Gag Order
- Apocalyptic Log
- Apocalyptic Logistics
- Apocalyptic Montage
- The Apunkalypse
- Archaeological Arms Race
- The Beforetimes
- But What About the Astronauts?
- Civilization Destroyer
- Celebrity Survivor
- Conducting the Carnage
- Cosy Catastrophe
- Dancin' in the Ruins
- Depopulation Bomb
- Desolation Shot
- Destroyer Deity
- Disaster Democracy
- Disaster Scavengers
- Doomsday Clock
- Doomsday Device
- Dream Apocalypse
- Earth All Along
- Earth-Shattering Kaboom
- Earth That Was
- Emergency Broadcast
- Emergency Presidential Address
- The End Is Nigh (AKA Doomsayer)
- Endless Daytime
- Endless Winter
- The End of the World as We Know It
- Eternal Recurrence
- The Famine
- Future Primitive
- Giant Wall of Watery Doom
- Hell on Earth
- Homeworld Evacuation
- Hostile Terraforming
- Humanity's Wake
- The Immune
- Inferred Holocaust
- Just Before the End
- Last Fertile Region
- The Last Man Heard a Knock...
- Lost Common Knowledge
- Low-Angle Empty World Shot
- Mayan Doomsday
- Millennium Bug
- Mistaken for Apocalypse
- Must Not Die a Virgin
- New Eden
- The Night That Never Ends
- No Bikes in the Apocalypse
- No FEMA Response
- Nuclear Nasty
- Omnicidal Maniac
- The Plague
- Planet Eater
- Post-Apocalyptic Dog
- Post Apocalyptic Gasmask
- Post-Apunkalyptic Armor
- Post-Peak Oil
- Put Them All Out of My Misery
- Ragnarök Proofing
- Reality-Breaking Paradox
- Reduced to Ratburgers
- Regional Redecoration
- Restart the World
- Ruins of the Modern Age
- Scavenged Punk (often but not always an apocalypse trope)
- Scavenger World
- Screw the Rules, It's the Apocalypse!
- Set the World on Fire
- Signs of the End Times
- Slept Through the Apocalypse
- Solar Flare Disaster
- Spreading Disaster Map Graphic
- Star Killing
- The Stars Are Going Out
- Sterility Plague
- Storyboarding the Apocalypse
- Sugar Apocalypse
- Teenage Wasteland
- Unspecified Apocalypse
- Urban Ruins
- Villain World
- Wasteland Elder
- Watch the World Die
- The World Is Always Doomed
- Zombie Apocalypse
